Carmen Browne series

Carmen starts middle school popular with everyone but her best friends, and finding a new friend only makes things worse, then her grades start to slip and a problem arises at home and she realizes the only way she can be happy again is to turn everything over to God.

When her African-American family moves to a new town after her father takes a football coaching job at a historically black university, ten-year-old Carmen learns important lessons about friendship and prejudice.

Fifth-grader Carmen Browne learns a series of hard lessons about friendship, boys, family, and God, when she repeatedly disobeys her parents, trying to prove how grown-up she is.

Carmen starts middle school popular with everyone but her best friends, and finding a new friend only makes things worse, then her grades start to slip and a problem arises at home and she realizes the only way she can be happy again is to turn everything over to God.

Eleven-year-old Carmen finds that, with the help of God, she can face the physical and social challenges of becoming a teenager.

Ten-year-old Carmen asks for God's help in meeting the challenges of her bossy nature and in facing serious issues such as domestic violence.